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According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as "sub-creation." And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.
The comedian and musician behind the viral hit “BBL Drizzy” shares the books that shaped his thinking and approach to art.
Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.
The latest season of the "Revolutions" podcast blends history with science fiction to tell the story of the Red Planet's rise.
From Allen Funt to Donald Trump, author Emily Nussbaum explains how reality TV has blurred the lines between, well, reality and TV.
“The only requisite for nonfiction is that it’s true," says Nathan Thrall, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama."
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
For J.R.R. Tolkien, the single most important element of a fairy tale was the dramatic reversal of misfortune in the story's ending.
Storytelling skills are not just for entertainment — practical exercises used by the cream of Hollywood can transform your work-life.
Burns’ latest documentary dives into the long-romanticized life and work of the Italian polymath.
"In that conversation with Laozi’s text, I began to see the shape of my own life, the questions that opened seams, the patterns that pooled and shimmered."
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, explains how to find branding success by making "boulders" out of "pebbles."
Why the best entrepreneurs should be more Obi-Wan Kenobi than Luke Skywalker.
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Rhetorical mastery is within everyone’s reach — equipped with some basic techniques you can rock it like Aristotle.
Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.
Veteran investor Sujal Patel, co-founder and CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology, helps us sift golden nuggets from the loose shale of entrepreneurship.
DE&I has come under fire — but our leaders should still embed allyship deep within company culture. Here’s a plan.
“Dune: Part One” screenwriter Eric Roth spoke with Big Think about the challenges of bringing Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic to the big screen.
Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.
Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
How to say, "In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce" and get away with it.
From "The Castle of Otranto" to "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
Every successful leader can mine golden knowledge from the works of the Bard.